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Scholars' Latino Initiative Grows in 2008
By Lauren Teegarden - Student Director of Development, August 06, 2008 03:46 PM
Scholars’ Latino Initiative had much success in spring 2008 and looks forward to additional growth in the 2008-2009 academic year. The program is now housed under the UNC Center for Global Initiatives and continues to increase awareness of Latino education issues on the UNC campus and in North Carolina. We look forward to additional collaboration with both the Center for Global Initiatives and the UNC Institute for the Study of the Americas.
In May 2008, the Siler City and UNC communities celebrated the graduation of eight members of the SLI program at Jordan Matthews High School in Chatham County. Seven of the eight graduates were admitted into four-year colleges, including Harvard, Amherst, Guildford, University of Richmond, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, Appalachian State, and Meredith College. Many of these students received scholarships to assist with the cost of college attendance from SLI’s Scholarship Fund.
The 2008-2009 academic year will be one of much-anticipated growth, as Scholars’ Latino Initiative continues to expand to other under-resourced communities. In August, Scholars’ Latino Initiative will expand into Lee County, making a total of three rural North Carolina Counties served by SLI-North Carolina centered at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (Chatham County, Asheboro County, and Lee County). Also in August, at the University of Richmond, the new SLI-Virginia branch will assemble its first conference with Virginia school district officials to select sites for SLI's expansion.
As SLI continues to expand in North Carolina and Virginia, the need for scholarship fund support is even greater. In the future, we look forward to additional growth of Public Service Corp, a program where SLI’s high school students assist younger, at-risk kids from their community.
Look for additional updates in the coming months as SLI continues to grow!
Season’s Greetings from the Scholars’ Latino Initiative!
By Nick Neptune - Project Liaison, December 20, 2007 06:55 PM
This fall, SLI welcomed twelve new pairs of Latino/a high school students and their undergraduate mentors. We are pleased to welcome them into the SLI community as they begin their pursuit of a higher education.
1) We’re delighted to announce that college acceptances for SLI seniors are arriving weekly! The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has accepted two SLI seniors, as has East Carolina University. We’re also proud to say that one of our seniors has received a full scholarship to Guilford College.
2) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor James Moeser expressed his support for SLI this November when he visited Jordan Matthews High School to meet with the mentors and their students.
3) Janet Jarman, the award-winning photojournalist and documentary producer, who is based in Mexico, will be visiting Jordan Matthews High School February 6th and 7th. Jarman's work has been published in The New York Times, The Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, Fortune, and on MSNBC.COM.
3) SLI students also started a letter writing campaign to thank North Carolina governor Mike Easley for supporting educational access for all undocumented students at NC community colleges, thus strengthening North Carolina’s future economy and its workforce, and maintaining the fight to keep higher education accessible to all people.
4) Plans to expand SLI to two other rural North Carolina counties have been drafted following invitations from several school officials. Keep an eye out for more information on our exciting growth in the next report.
Happy Holidays!
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Notes from the project coordinator!
By Peter Kaufman - Project Coordinator, March 08, 2007 05:57 PM
SLI continues to work with the Latina/o youngsters at our pilot project high school in Siler City, and has entertained invitations to expand. But we prefer to assure a funding basis for scholarship for those who complete our cultural enrichment, study skills, and public service program. Perhaps the most notables developments follow:
1) We have acted in compliance with federal regulations to assure that members of the SLI Board and the Triangle Community Foundation make up only a minority of those on the committee selecting scholars.
2) We have added Kevin Markle, now completing advanced degree work at the University of North Carolina's Kenan Flagler Business School as Treasurer, and we are preparing to replace Janet Lopez, project director, who will receive her PhD from the school of education in June.
3) Kristin Economo, UNC undergraduate, collaborating with local officials in Siler City has established a "public service corps," so that SLI's high school students undertake regular, after school duties--assisting "at risk youngsters" from area K-8 programs.
4) Dennis McFarland, author of PRINCE EDWARD, presided over the most recent, early March session of SLI's early college experience and the Initiative students completed previous "extracurricular" classes on his book. The sessions capped our two-month concentration on the history of desegregation in the South, 1954-1964. Our next guest is filmmaker Jeffrey Zimbalist, producer and co-director of the HBO/Cinemax documentary, FAVELA RISING, winner in its category at the Tribeca Festival--2005.
5) We'll have a group photo to you at the next update, and you'll find our 8 sophmores, 9 juniors, 17 undergraduate college mentors, and staff ready to celebrate the college acceptances (5 already) of our seniors.
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